There is a popular and persistent image of the ‘tough guy’ crime writer. A ‘loner’ sitting at a battered typewriter, a fedora tilted back on his head, a smouldering cigarette hanging from his lips, a half drunk bottle of whiskey in the desk drawer. They are usually called Mickey or Chester or Ross and they practise their dark arts in shabby offices in Los Angeles or New York. Whatever they are - they are not called Gerald and they don’t come from Teddington High Street… well not often.

The TAC is a Free to join voluntary organisation established at the beginning of 2010 and run by anglers, wanting to help in the conservation of the River Thames.

As anglers we spend a vast amount of time by the river and collectively we hold an incredible amount of knowledge about the fish that the river contains. Many of us have fished the river for the best part of our lives during which time we have all noticed changes in our catches and the environment.

Camps run over Easter (11-15 April) and eight weeks over the summer (see Details below).

Students who enroll for our one week course will receive all the fundamental instruction they need to get to grips with completing a short film. Classes run from 9.00am - 2.00pm at Twickenham Film Studios, but also include additional instruction at other locations such as ITV London Studios, Pinewood, Shepperton etc. Here students will learn how a live studio operates and have the opportunity to visit the studio sets of programmes being shot at that time.

I remember Wednesday February 6th 1952 rather well. I was sitting at the back of class VIII at Burghley Road Primary School, Tufnell Park, listening to our teacher, Miss Kirkby, talking about Italic writing. When the classroom door opened and the Headmaster Mr Condern came in we all stood up.

Mr Condern was never a barrel of laughs at the best of times but today he looked more sombre than ever. He asked us to sit down.

bq. “I have some rather sad news”, he said.”It has just been announced that the King, our King, George 6th, has died.”

Being only 7 years old we didn’t know how to react to this kind of news so we sat there until Miss Kirkby gave a gentle sigh, which set us all off, oohing and aahing in a suitably funereal way.

The Turk’s Head presents a high energy funk/soul evening with Montreal born, Kristin Yeatman and her 7-piece band, performing an inspired selection of classics plus tracks from her new CD, Orleans Road